The big white cow was being made for the cremation of a holy man that had died in Ubud at the old age of 104 years.
Ketut was in charge of organizing the production and invited me down to take a few photos.
They had been working on it for about 3 weeks and it was almost complete.
The eyebrows were made of monkey skin with the hair still on. I asked
Ketut if the fur had come from the monkeys in the monkey forest but he
was startled. No these were from Javanese monkeys. The ones in the
monkey forest in Udud were off limits. (sacred)
They were set up at Artini 3 cottages around the bend from the perama
bus terminal. The owner is fairly well off and I think he was
sponsoring the operation financially.
The
cremation ceremony is a big event and Ketut said there were over a
thousand people at the ceremony. (I was in Timor and missed it) Lots of
foreigners were there as well.
The biggest problem was getting the cow over to where the event was to
take place because it had to pass under the wires going across the road.
This was an exceptionally big cow because the man who had passed was very highly revered.
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